present results from a laboratory experiment in which two parties can appropriate resources via a contest or, alternatively …, take an outside option. Keeping monetary gains expected from fighting constant across all treatments, the experiment …

. -- individual behavior ; group membership ; team decision-making ; experiment … making in teams. I find in an investment experiment that individual decisions with salient group membership are largely the … same as team decisions. This finding bridges the literature on team decision making and on group membership effects …

, because the economics literature on group decision making has, so far, assumed homogeneity within groups. In a lab experiment …